Emergency Medical Services - Dr Shaheem de Vries

TALK AT 6 with Wayne Turner

Our emergency services workers are under extreme pressure while performing their daily service to our communities. Besides the robberies and assaults on ambulance crews they have to cope with being frontline workers in a Covid pandemic which adds another layer of stress and trauma. Dr Shaheem de Vries chats to us about his amazing team of self-sacrificing staff bringing emergency care to citizens of the Western Cape and how trauma impacts the crews on the ground.